Load transportation by quadrotors and similar aircrafts is a topic of great interest to the
robotics community nowadays, most likely due to logistic gains for deliveries of commercial …

Small-scale rotorcraft unmanned robotic systems (SRURSs) are a kind of unmanned
rotorcraft with manipulating devices. This review aims to provide an overview on aerial …

In this letter, we introduce a novel transformable aerial robot called DRAGON, which is a
dual-rotor-embedded multilink robot with the ability of multi-degree-of-freedom (DoF) aerial …

The aerial manipulator is a special and new type of flying robot composed of a rotorcraft
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a/several manipulator/s. It has gained a lot of attention …

This letter presents a viable framework that integrates control, estimation of unknown
payload, safety management, and obstacle avoidance for cooperative transportation in …

This paper presents an approach that generates the overall trajectory of mobile
manipulators for a complex mission consisting of several sub-tasks. Parametric dynamic …

In this paper, we present the achievement of aerial grasping by shape adaptive
transformation to the object shape, using a novel transformable aerial robot called HALO …

Autonomous grasping with an aerial manipulator in the applications of aerial transportation
and manipulation is still a challenging problem because of the complex …

Abstract The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2017 has
defined ambitious new benchmarks to advance the state‐of‐the‐art in autonomous …

Motion planning algorithms have seen considerable progress and expansion across various
domains of science and technology during the last few decades, where rapid advancements …